National Republican., 1887-10-28
CURRENT COMMENT.
The scintIllstions which Brighten Our

effective for protection.
Boston advertiser: To many men, at this
time, 1t appears that Allison will be the
Republican nominee, Mr.. Blaine being the
chief ipstrumentallty in bringing 1t about by
Withdrawing in his favor.
Denver Republican The surest way to
make railroads witchful aud careful OF the
safety Of passengers is to hang the men
who are responsible for the deadly acci-
dents which are the result OF carelessness.
Detroit Tribune. The fellows who threat
ened to destroy the wool industry OF this
country are going to hear something drop.
the wool growers and farmers can prevent
ii.
st. Louis Globe Democrat The sober and
practical truth Is that the salvation OF the
freedmen can be worked out only by them
selves. There is no short cut for them
to a condition of perfect comfort and con-
tentment.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: There is
no liberty Of speech In this country to ad.
vocate the assassination OF the officers OF
the law for the performance Of their duty.
If there Is a little of 1t tolerated here and
there 1t is because II is despised.
New York Tribune: The man who has his
coffin made during his lifetime is simply
suffering from disagreeable variety OF the
disease known as egotism. 1t is very little
consequence what any man is buried In, and
the man who goes to the length about 1t
convicts himself Of morbid self.conceit.
New York Star I. The taxes fall most
heavily upon the masses. They feel them
| In what they eat and wear, and IN the rent
| OF the rooms they live In. IL clothes are a
| little dearer or property or rent little
higher 1t does, not greatly, matter to the
| rich. But to the poor, and above all to
| their infant children, 1t means the differ
and sickness, and even life and death.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: Mr.
| Powderly's practical administering has
| given him better knowledge Of faults In
the organic constitution of the order, and Of
| the needs OF the government OF such an i'm
mensity OF affairs than can have been ac-
| quired In the Lesser opportunities OF any
other Of the rulers. His sober Judgment
for Capitalization of power In one head
| has been derived from his practical admins
teriDg of affairs, and is entitled to all the
weight due to experience and superior
ability.
| Pittsburg Commercial Gazette: Let 1t be
remembered that our principal cities are
rapidly filling up with the dangerous classes,
and that many of them are the scum and
dregs OF European society. We are well
supplied with propagandists Of anarchy and
revolution, and their special mission is to
marching under black flags and crimson
banners. Surely 1t is time TO invoke the
majesty OF the law IN the defense OF our
persone, our homes, and our property, and
10 teach the dangerous classes that II they
strike at any Of our institutions they do 80
at their peril.
| Wilmington Messenger: II is very pain.
ful to think that the civil service commits
sioners cannot agree, even In matters which
affect their own personal relations. I'm
| Questionably they are all now I'm hot water
so far as the personal bearing OF each to
ward the other Is concerned Mr. Oberly
and Mr.. EdgertoD, the Democratic mem.
bers OF the commission, are not now even
on speaking terms, Mr.. Lyman. the Re
publican member, displays, what is most
remarkable in a Republican, sense ol
dellcacy, and, rather than espouse the
cause Of either, holds himself resoluteiy
| aloof from both.
st. Lonis Globe Democrat. Local self.
government is a cardinal tenet with the free
traders. Doing away with the revenue
officials OF the general government certainly
looks like step In decentralization. TAX.
ing away the United States license from
whisky dealers certainly more completely rel
egates the liquor question to the precincts
|
| perhaps, strengthen the state Prohibition
lists, and this may be embarrassing to thu
bid the Democracy proposes making fol-
the German vote with anti-Prohibitior
platforms. Still 1t is q long step TOWARD
local sell government, state that has beei
represented as lenching very closely upol
the precincts OF paradise.
Charleston News and Courier The rea
difference between the reallst and idealis
schools, 1t is suggested, is the difference be
tween Imagination and invention. Whethe
or not this Is to be considered fine distinc
tion depends on the point OF view. Shakes
peare had little or no invention. He sto
his plots bodily, and devoted himself almos
exclusively to creating character. This, |
seems, is the real business of those win
write for posterity Us well as for their mex
door neighbCrs. 1t is in this direction tina
the imagination frets and roars and thun
ders. The inventor, with his little plots, 4
nowhere in comparison. Character In lit
erature Is life, but life is not always charac
ter. Talent is invention. Genius is imagi
nation.
! Pittsburg Dispatch: Mr.. Cleveland, we
trust, has fou d that the countryis prosper
Gus, and that 1t is pretty serious matter t.
encourage the anti-tarifl agitation that 1
going on In his party, which ifcarried out Il
legislative measures could ot fail to In
; jurlously affect manufactures and disar
range trade. IL some thoughts OF this kin,
did not come into his mind when he passed
through Plttsburg, with its furnace
, allame andit5 machinery Changing on al
sides, 1t can readily be believed that h,
was told Of II by the people Of the CROWN
southern towns OF Chattanooga, Nashville
and Atlanta, where new home industrle
are spnnglug numerously into prosperou
! existence under a favorable protectiv
= taIiir. Should the President have &c
4 but this one idea from his trip it wouit
f through his influence with his party,
worth the time and expense OF the eXcu
sion.
New York Times The reported agree
' ment between France and Great Britain IL
the withdrawal Of the French troops frog
the New. hebrides will, II carried out, h
, very greatly to the advantage OF all col
: cerned. 1t Was quite impossible for Ii
J British government to consent to Franc
Z obtaining any foothold in the islands az
iacent 10 Australia for the purpose OF mai
ing penal colonies OF them. Not onl
. would such policy have been strenuousl
resisted by the British colonies, but ha
1t been carried out these colo
3. mics would inevitably have manage
Q promptly to involve the home governmar
!, in hostllitles over the matter. The Freuc
4 penal colonies, through curious confuslO
f Of mind In the French government as
6 what can be done with them, have becom
f literally breeding places Of vice aud
a vicious men aud women, The evidence
/ incontCstable that, with the mistaken pu
pose Of helping reform criminals by the II
troduetiOn Of family ties, the French hay
stocked portions Of their penal establlsl
0 mept with men and women, who are al
lowed to reproduce their kind with pract
s cal certainty That tine OffanrlnO will n